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I think he should have won the first one. The second one was for them to show off the battle between brothers (sawk and thro) and this one is definitely for Trip... Ash could have won the first one... But not with Pikachu, he's been starring too much and Pikachu had starred and would have starred Ash's two other big battles (Burgh and Elesa)

I don't feel like giving this explanation again, so I'm just going to copy and paste what I've posted before:

It doesn't take a genious to figure out why Iris won the first tournament. Misty, May, and Dawn all had their accomplishments. Misty had her side achievements and May and Dawn had their contests to shine in. The writers made Iris win because it gave her an accomplishment like the previous girls before her, as well as give her and Excadrill a reunion win together.

As for the second tournament, it was made simply to showcase Throh and Sawk in the finals.

Trip winning the third tournament was also obvious, because the prize is battling Alder.

As for Ash, giving him a tournament win is pointless since he already takes all the attention anyway. People wouldn't watch if Ash was the only focused one.

I don't feel like giving this explanation again, so I'm just going to copy and paste what I've posted before:

It doesn't take a genious to figure out why Iris won the first tournament. Misty, May, and Dawn all had their accomplishments. Misty had her side achievements and May and Dawn had their contests to shine in. The writers made Iris win because it gave her an accomplishment like the previous girls before her, as well as give her and Excadrill a reunion win together.

As for the second tournament, it was made simply to showcase Throh and Sawk in the finals.

Trip winning the third tournament was also obvious, because the prize is battling Alder.

As for Ash, giving him a tournament win is pointless since he already takes all the attention anyway. People wouldn't watch if Ash was the only focused one.

All the people saying everything after johto sucked would beg to differ.

I don't feel like giving this explanation again, so I'm just going to copy and paste what I've posted before:

It doesn't take a genious to figure out why Iris won the first tournament. Misty, May, and Dawn all had their accomplishments. Misty had her side achievements and May and Dawn had their contests to shine in. The writers made Iris win because it gave her an accomplishment like the previous girls before her, as well as give her and Excadrill a reunion win together.

As for the second tournament, it was made simply to showcase Throh and Sawk in the finals.

Trip winning the third tournament was also obvious, because the prize is battling Alder.

As for Ash, giving him a tournament win is pointless since he already takes all the attention anyway. People wouldn't watch if Ash was the only focused one.

All the people who arent saying everything after johto sucked would beg to differ.

I was wondering if his losses in these tournaments are building up to his League win too, but if he won here it'd feel so out of place. The only thing that would make Ash winning the league this time around realistic would be if he used his reserves too, which I highly doubt is going to happen.

I was wondering if his losses in these tournaments are building up to his League win too, but if he won here it'd feel so out of place. The only thing that would make Ash winning the league this time around realistic would be if he used his reserves too, which I highly doubt is going to happen.

Watch Ash call back DA CHARIZARD and pwn Trip's 2 "most powerful" Pokemon (Conkeldurr and Serperior). Oh man Ash should have done this in this tournament, Charizard would have the advantage over both those and we know Trip would have chosen one of those xD

makes this whole unova trek almost useless, he hasnt won anything, i doubt he's gonna win the league coz he never does...just bad writters being bad is all there is to it, i cant hate on his character for lack of progress because its the writters that are dicking around this season...they should be fired and replaced with new writters..i've said this before they should have new writters for each generation so the writting doesnt get stale and repatitive..because this season they look like a bunch of idiots

Please explain how it isn't believable. I don't see how anybody could blatantly come to that conclusion. Especially since Pikachu is stronger than the drill.

Excadrill is immune to ALL electric type attacks, which means zero damage. And Excadrill resists iron tail since it's part steel type and iron tail is a steel type move. That leaves pikachu with only quick attack. Again, how is this believeable? Excadrill clearly overpowers the rat.

Originally Posted by Thing

You mean like your comment above?

Actually it's an assumption based on what the writers have been doing for the past 15 years.

Ash winning the league has nothing to do with him leaving the show. Once again, you show nothing.

I don't really care. He's not weak and a tournament win would be pointless. I think the writers just wanted to focus on other characters like the supporting characters like Kenyan or Bianca then Ash for a little while. I just hopes he wins the Isshu League. :-D